Re: Face - problem!!

[Surendra Singhi <efuzzyone@netscape.net>]

David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

> Surendra Singhi <efuzzyone@netscape.net> writes:
>
>> I want to insert face into my news posts and I have the following lines in my
>> .gnus file
>>
>> (setq message-required-news-headers
>>    (nconc message-required-news-headers
>> 	  (list '(Face . (lambda ()
>> 		   (gnus-face-from-file "~/.xemacs/face.jpg"))))))
>>
>> The value of the variable is also set accordingly to
>>
>> (From Newsgroups Subject Date Message-ID (optional . Organization)
>>  (optional . User-Agent) (Face lambda nil 
>> (gnus-face-from-file "~/.xemacs/face.jpg")))
>>
>> But it doesn't seems to have the intended effect.
>>
>> Am I doing anything wrong, or do I need to set some other variable?
>
> I don't think you're actually getting the lambda (code) into the list;
> instead, you're getting the symbol 'lambda and such into it.  Maybe
> you mean something more like
>
> (setq message-required-news-headers
>   (append message-required-news-headers
>     (list (cons 'Face (lambda ()
>                         (gnus-face-from-file "face.jpg"))))))
>
> Or, even,
>
> (defun acquire-gnus-face () (gnus-face-from-file "face.jpg"))
> (setq message-required-news-headers
>   (append message-required-news-headers
>     '((Face . acquire-gnus-face))))
>
Both your method and my method gives the same result
i.e., ((Face lambda nil
       (gnus-face-from-file "face.jpg")))

> (It's not obvious to me that "~/.xemacs/face.jpg" will do what you
> want as an argument to gnus-face-from-file; you might need to pass
> that through expand-file-name on the way.)

Even after using expand-file-name on the way I don't get face field in my
messages.
The value of the variable is now:

(From Newsgroups Subject Date Message-ID (optional . Organization) 
(optional . User-Agent) (Face lambda nil (gnus-face-from-file 
(expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/face.jpg"))))

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Surendra Singhi
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